Who exactly does Hamza Yusuf think he is?

I would like to say with pure sincerity that I dislike to point out the faults of other Muslims or at least by name, but I recently received a You Tube video sent to me by a friend and it was a video by Hamza Yusuf and I replied to him by saying that I do not follow Hamza Yusuf or his videos, neither do I choose to watch them because the last time I watched one of them I was very disappointed in what he had to say about our Islamic scholars. On the 25:21 of the video Hamza Yusuf says:

"...the great teaching institution that produced high caliber scholars no longer exist and that people in the Arab world know that you get great grades you go to medical school, good grades engineering school, reasonable grades agriculture, political science and if you get really bad grades you go to Sharia college, so what we've got are a bunch of third rate, unfortuneatly, with respect to you know, people and their abilities, but we have a lot of people who are not up for the challenge in the religious sphere."

Now, if you cannot see what is wrong with this then please re-read it and sit back and think, because this totally made me shake my head in disbelief, but what is more astonishing is that, noone commented on this video in regard to this statement of Hamza's. So, now I will delve into this and insha'Allah can make clear what Hamza has stated.
First of all, I would like to ask who is Hamza Yusuf? I mean I know that he has some sort of Islamic Knowledge and that he spent time with the bedouin out in the desert, but what else do we know about him? Remember this as it will be relevant later.
What Hamza said in laymens terms and straight to the point is that we have a bunch of Muslims who could not get the grades required to go to a college of a secular nature and from Hamza's statement, obviously more important than Islamic college, as our sheikhs and scholars of the religion of Islam. He's saying that:

1) Those of our scholars who choose this profession for themselves did so only because they could not hack it in a real college, i.e. Medical, engineering, agriculture.

2) That our Islamic institutions like Madinah University and the Numerous other Islamic colleges hand out Masters degrees and phd's by the bunches, as if they do not know how to properly evaluate the quality of students they have.

3) He is somehow qualified to make this pronouncement, which in turn would put him in a position above these same Islamic scholars that he demeans.

When I told this to my friend who sent me the video, he didn't believe me and asked for the proof, but what he said was, "I don't think Sheikh Hamza would say that." and I had to step back and say, what? Did he just call Hamza Yusuf Sheikh?
What I am getting at is, we use the term Sheikh too freely now a days. A Sheikh is one of two things or both; An old Man and/ or an Islamic Scholar. We can clearly see he is not an old man and if you know where to look, you can also see that he is not an Islamic Scholar either, which is apparent from his on and off again beard that he sports. For the laymen like us, we might be able to get away with that, but for a "Sheikh" who we are dependant upon to learn from and teach us the Adab (Mannerisms) of a Muslim, then this is not acceptable. You see in Islam, the word scholar takes a different meaning than the western one whereas the scholar in the west is a person who has attained a required amount of knowledge or has been awarded a scholarship. In Islam the scholar is one who has attained the required amount of knowledge and implements it into his everyday life, one who leads by example.
Proof that it is obligatory to where the beard is the book "The Beard Between Salaf and Khalaf" by Sheikh Muhammd Jibaly.
The point is that Hamza Yusuf cannot compare to the likes of our real Shuyukh like Muhammd Jibaly, Sheikh Salim Al Hilali, Sheikh Sulaiman Umar Al Ashqar or even Jalal Abualrub who is also from the Sunnah, but he talks badly of our quality of Scholars. And if he is not talking about them, then who because these are some of our leading scholars. Another thing I have witnessed is that these Scholars are experts in the doctrine of Islam, not comparative religion or the Bible as we see this trend with this new wave of "scholars" who only want to debate the Bible and authenticity of Christianity. This is not what you want to call a Sheikh. We need to get back to the fundamentals of Tauhid, Aqeedah, Hadith, and Arabic studies and leave the debates for the christians to indulge in amongst themselves. this is not to say not to debate at all, but we should not preoccupy ourselves with studying the Bible vigorously to win a debate when we have not learned the fundamentals of our own religion. We must save ourselves before we can save others, if that is the real goal, because from my perspective, the debates done today are done for fame and for vengence, not for Dawa like they used to be.
I urgently ask you brothers and sisters to watch what some of these "Scholars" say and judge them accordingly and do not be so quick to award a scholarship to anyone who has an understanding of the basics in Islam and can speak Arabic. I speak English, Spanish and Arabic (Sort of). Am I a Sheikh? Of course not! But I do love the Ulema, the upholders of the religion of Islam. (Attached is the video where Hamza Yusuf calls our scholars "limited in their abilities")

Salamu Alaikum